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SDPBLocal school districts are beginning to set their budgets for the coming academic year. However, there are new challenges as COVID-era funding moves further into the past and a new crop of legislators leave their fingerprints on law. -
Courtesy/South Dakota School of Mines and TechnologySouth Dakota Mines hasn’t hosted a speech team in a half-century, but its legacy is living on through a new tournament.
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A bill seeking to force school districts display the Ten Commandments in every South Dakota classroom has advanced from the Senate. -
Actor C. Thomas Howell will headline a special screening at Northern State University. -
A Senate committee is advancing a bill to modify the state’s maximum benefit sparsely populated school districts are eligible to receive. -
The Augustana University and Center for Western Studies Boe Forum on Public Affairs is featuring a noted presidential historian this year. -
A bill requiring the use of a cash option to attend school-related events narrowly advances in the state House Education Committee. Though some say it’s overreaches for its target goal. -
A bill which seeks to mandate the Ten Commandments be displayed in every South Dakota classroom advances from the Senate Education committee. -
The first of what will likely be many bills seeking to tackle the governor’s proposed education savings accounts was heard this week.
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The state Board of Regents made zero budget requests to the South Dakota Legislature this year. -
Gov. Noem used her final State of the State address as a top-ten highlight reel for her accomplishments as governor during the last seven years. -
State lawmakers will consider Gov. Kristi Noem’s proposal to establish a program that prioritizes funding for low-income students to attend private school or receive alternative instruction.
